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In a written decision, a state official said self-quarantining isn't a legitimate reason to claim unemployment - and that the governor never told a private citizen to leave their job.
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Kentucky officials likely underpaid some workers and overpaid others who weren't eligible for the benefits they received.
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The state is required to collect when a person has been overpaid in unemployment benefits — even if it wasn't their fault. That means some are learning about their state debt only after they're in need of unemployment again.
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The former executive director of the Kentucky Office of Unemployment Insurance told legislators Thursday the agency’s chaotic rush to deliver benefits in…
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Benton has been the face of the state’s unemployment office in recent months.
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Cabinet officials defended the hiring and downplayed the firing of the executive director of the Office of Unemployment Insurance at a legislative hearing…
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The head of the Office of Unemployment Insurance was quietly fired on May 5, amid an unprecedented number of jobless claims, a race to overhaul an archaic computer system and a belatedly-reported data breach.
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The back-end technology for Kentucky's unemployment system is decades old, an added hurdle for both the state government and newly unemployed.